The 2024 ECS conference addressed current conflicts over the scope and enforcement of European copyright law, and looked for ways to resolve these conflicts in a trustworthy manner and with a balanced outcome. The first session focused on the role of copyright in the data economy, in particular the impact of copyright on data access rights. In the second session, Thomas Koch, the presiding judge of the copyright senate of the Bundesgerichtshof, gave a keynote speech on the cooperation between the Bundesgerichtshof and the CJEU in the application and interpretation of EU copyright law. The third session was dedicated to copyright in the platform economy. Finally, the fourth session looked at European copyright from the perspective of sustainable development and human rights.

08:30    Registration

​​​09:00    Welcome by Alexander Peukert, Chair of ECS

09:15-10:45 Session 1: Copyright, the Data Economy and Data Access 90 Min

Ole-Andreas Rognstad: Data Ownership Ambiguity – A Trust Problem (20 min) (presentation)

Martin Kretschmer/Thomas Margoni (ECS guest)/Tatiana Eleni Synodinou: The Paradox of Lawful Access (20 min) (presentation)

Mireille van Eechoud: Does the Data Economy Call for Unitary Copyright? (20 min) (presentation)

Q&A (30 min)

10:45-11:15    Coffee Break

11:15-12:30 Session 2: Trust or Conflict Between National Courts and the CJEU? (75 min)

Thomas Koch: A Perspective from the Bundesgerichtshof (30 min)

Estelle Derclaye: A Perspective from Academia (20 min) (presentation)

Q&A (25 min)

12:30-13:30    Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 3: Copyright and the Platform Economy (90 Min)

Caterina Sganga: Authors’ Fair Remuneration: Taking Stock After the CDSM Directive and Looking Ahead (20 min) (presentation)

Martin Husovec: Trusted Content Creators: Improving the Position of Authors (20 min) (presentation)

Martin Senftleben: Metadata Mainstreaming in Copyright Law – The Right Instrument for Building Trust in Content Recommender and Monetization Systems? (20 min) (presentation)

Q&A (30 min)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Session 4: Copyright, Sustainability and Human Rights (60 min)

Péter Mezei: Intellectual Property and Upcycling – Towards a Sustainable Transformativeness (20 min) (presentation)

Christophe Geiger: Copyright and Generative AI from a Human Rights perspective, Or How to Deal With the Conflict Between Scientific Development in AI Technology and the Remuneration Interests of Creators (20 min) (presentation)

Q/A (20 min)

16:30   Closing of the Conference